terraNOVA Collective Staff
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JENNIFER CONLEY DARLING is the Producing Artistic Director of terraNOVA Collective and has led the creation of its two pillar programs, Groundbreakers Playwrights Group, a weekly writers workshop and soloNOVA Arts Festival, a multi-disciplinary festival showcasing the best in solo work, now the longest running solo festival in NYC. Other producing credits include: undergroundzero festival (PS 122), Theatre Communication Group’s Free Night of Theater NYC (freenightnyc.net), MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit for The New School (mobilityshifts.org). Production Management credits include private concerts & events with John Mellancamp, Tony Bennett, Katy Perry & Mario Lopez through Hollywood Pop Gallery. She is a board member of the League of Independent Theater, an advocacy organization for Indie Theater (www.litny.org). She is also an alum of Women’s Project’s Producers Lab. Her acting credits include: Buried Words by Karen Smith Vastola (2011 NYFringe), Feeder: A Love Story by James Carter (HERE); Baby Steps by James Carter (Theatre Row); Atwater Project by Lucy Gillespie (Reading, PS122); Our Bar by Charles O’Hara (Midwest Tour); Good Person of Szechwan by Brecht.
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JESSI D. HILL is a theatre director and Associate Artistic Director of terraNOVA Collective where she co-created and curates the Groundbreakers Playwrights Group. Recent directing projects include work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater/Joe's Pub, Hoxton Hall (London), Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh), The Playwrights' Center, Primary Stages, Labyrinth, Chicago Dramatists, The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Culture Project, The Acting Company, New Dramatists, Dixon Place, The Lark, The Playwrights Realm, New Georges, The Women's Project, The Claque, Astoria Performing Arts Center, and others. She is a guest director in professional training programs at Yale School of Drama, Fordham University, Long Island University, Powerhouse/NY Stage & Film, NYU/Tisch, Strasberg, CAP21, Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Hunter College and others. MFA: Yale. Member SDC. Current projects: www.jessidhill.com |
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JO CATTELL is a producer/director/writer who has worked in theatre and television in the UK, Germany, France, Canada and the USA. She currently works with Collaboraction in Chicago as Managing Director, as well as Resident Director for terraNOVA Collective in Chicago and New York City. Jo’s main focus as a director has been on developing new writing. She is currently working with Juan Villa on his new play, DON CHIPOTLE, Isaac Gomez on his play WOMEN OF JUEREZ and Andrea Lepcio on ME YOU US THEM. She recently worked as Script Consultant on RADIANT BABY, the Keith Haring musical for The Public Theatre, NYC, and is lead creator on a new project, BETWEEN SHADOW AND SOUL, being developed with terraNOVA Collective and Theatre C. She has directed for Origin Theatre Company, 1st Irish Theatre Festival, terraNOVA Collective, Leviathan Lab and was co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of BNTA in Las Vegas; she developed and directed SKYSCRAPING by Tim Stimpson for Net Curtain Theatre Company, which premiered at London’s Soho Theatre Studio and was then transferred to the Southwark Playhouse; assisted Theresa Heskins on Tony nominated playwright, Bryony Lavery’s PRECIOUS BANE, for Pentabus Theatre; co-wrote and directed sketch comedy for the BBC; directed the first digital art installation for Canterbury Cathedral, 18:1-7 with C2atelyst Productions, UK; worked with at-risk youth for Grassmarket Project productions at Rutherglen Town Hall, Glasgow and The Roundhouse, London, staring David Harewood, and she was also Acting Coach for Cirque du Soleil on The Beatles LOVE, Las Vegas.
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